Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISA journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.
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In the journey of the year, the autumn is Venice, spring is Naples, certainly, and the majestic maturity of summer is Rome.
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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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Virtue does not truly reward her votary if she leaves him sad and half doubtful whether it would not have been better to serve vice.
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Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
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A man’s country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.
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Progress begins with the minority. It is completed by persuading the majority, by showing the reason and the of the step forward, and that is accomplished by appealing to the intelligence of the majority.
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Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conquer.
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The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
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A tree which has lost its head will never recover it again, and will survive only as a monument of the ignorance and folly of its Tormentor.
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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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